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Wait, didnt know there was a thread about this already/
Sorry.
Please explain why he's wrong.
Obviously the 92 Dream Team was amazing. But I feel like they are overrated a bit. Sure they demolished teams like Angola, Lithuania and Purto Rico to name a few. But the international compe ion then sucks.
Their biggest compe ion was Croatia and that team was considered a "threat" because back then they featured 3 NBA caliber players that were no more than role players in the league tbh (Kukoc, Petrovic, Radja). They neutralized a young Kukoc who never saw that kind of compe ion to begin with so that team wasn't really hard to beat in the first place. I mean, , I think the 2004 olympic Team that won Bronze will have a cake walk against those 92 International Teams.
Nowadays you guys have players like the Gasol, Ginobili, Ibaka, etc playing for their National Teams, I mean one of these players can easily qualify a spot fot that 92 Dream Team if they have American Citizenship. I'm just poiniting out that the quality of players has tremendously increased since then.
Also, that 92 Dream Team was pretty old and slow tbh. Pippen, Jordan, Barkley, Malone, Robinson and Ewing were all obviously in their prime. But guys like Chris Mullin, Larry Bird, Christian Laettner were pretty horrible back ups.
Put it this way. No one can stop Lebron. Not even Skinny Pippen and not Jordan ROFL. Malone can body him up, sure, but Bron is too quick for him. Barkley? Forget it, he doesn't play defense. Westbrook is way too quick for any players in that team. Westbrook can score at ease. Add scorers like Durant and Melo and you'll get the picture of this team easily scoring at will. Magic Johnson and Stockton or any of their guards not named Jordan won;t be able to handle the trio of CP3, Deron and Westbrook
Defensively, the 2012 team is pretty good. Lebron and Iguodala are outstanding defensive players. Kobe can lock Magic Johnson real good. Lebron would totally make it harder for Jordan.
The biggest concern of course is the 2012's lack of size. But in FIBA rules and the way the OG Dream Team played (which was more transitional and up tempo) they really negate the use of their big men. Patrick Ewing was actually used as a spot up shooter at the left wing and Robinson was used as a cut and drive player on the offensive end. To be honest, that team didn't had any offense for their big men.
The 2012 Dream Team lacked size, true, but what they lack for it, they more than make up with their speed and a healthy mix of unstoppable offensive weapons. With one game on the line, its not crazy to think that Kobe and Lebron could lift this team to victory.
Wait, didnt know there was a thread about this already/
Sorry.
fiba rules actually favor teams who have quality bigs imho. there's no defensive 3-sec rule in fiba games (nor the semicircle) so the bigs can stay under the rim, if the team play zone D with the center always lying low, it's very difficult for the slashers (bron, wade, iggy etc...) to drive in and score. the old legends like ewing, rob, hakeem etc... anyone of them would eat TC alive one on one tbh
this team is pretty much neutered playing under fiba rules and if you got an opposing team that has similar level of talents (like the 92' team) but better structured, today's team is ed
team espana only lost to US by single digit four years ago and now they have a black freak in the form of ibaka, US-espana matchup gonna be the most watchable bball game the whole tournament imho, the rest all guaranteed to be blowouts with 30pts+ margins
Pretty good post tbh unlike that Stalin guy who uses "endorsements" as his main argument.
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